Woman’s Eye, Womans Hand
Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Distributed for Seagull Books - Zubaan Books
224 pages
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78 halftones
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2014
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
In the Presence of Women
D. Fairchild Ruggles
1. Reading Place through Patronage
Begum Samru’s Building Campaign in Early Ninteenth-century India
Alisa Eimen
2. Breaking the Rules
Purdah, Self-expression and the Patronage of Maharanis in Jaipur
Catherine B. Asher
3. The Buildings of the Begums of Bhopal
"Islamic" Architecture in a Nineteenth-century Indian Princely State
Barbara D. Metcalf
4. Memorial Parks to Begum Hazrat Mahan and Mayawati in Lucknow
Cultural Landscape and Political Ideologies
Amita Sinha
5. Making Women (In)Visible?
Homespun in the Nationalist Politics of Dress and Identity in Modern India, 1917-1935
Lisa Trivedi
6. Seen through a Screen
Doris Duke’s Patronage of South Asian Artists
Sharon Littlefield
7. Thinking through Pictures
A Kantian Reading of Amrita Sher-Gil’s Self-portrait as Tahitian
Pradeep A. Dhillon
8. Pravina Mehta
A Woman Architect in Post-independence India
Mary N. Woods
9. Shifting Boundaries and Creating Identities
Women Architects in India: 1960 Onward
Madhavi Desai
About the Editor and Contributors
Introduction
In the Presence of Women
D. Fairchild Ruggles
1. Reading Place through Patronage
Begum Samru’s Building Campaign in Early Ninteenth-century India
Alisa Eimen
2. Breaking the Rules
Purdah, Self-expression and the Patronage of Maharanis in Jaipur
Catherine B. Asher
3. The Buildings of the Begums of Bhopal
"Islamic" Architecture in a Nineteenth-century Indian Princely State
Barbara D. Metcalf
4. Memorial Parks to Begum Hazrat Mahan and Mayawati in Lucknow
Cultural Landscape and Political Ideologies
Amita Sinha
5. Making Women (In)Visible?
Homespun in the Nationalist Politics of Dress and Identity in Modern India, 1917-1935
Lisa Trivedi
6. Seen through a Screen
Doris Duke’s Patronage of South Asian Artists
Sharon Littlefield
7. Thinking through Pictures
A Kantian Reading of Amrita Sher-Gil’s Self-portrait as Tahitian
Pradeep A. Dhillon
8. Pravina Mehta
A Woman Architect in Post-independence India
Mary N. Woods
9. Shifting Boundaries and Creating Identities
Women Architects in India: 1960 Onward
Madhavi Desai
About the Editor and Contributors
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